Helen Castor

@hrcastor

Blood & Roses, She-Wolves, Joan of Arc, Elizabeth I, THE EAGLE AND THE HART
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St Charles Borromeo makes a guest appearance in my latest post, being compared to 'singed bacon' by Lord Coleraine in 1675...
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helencastor.substack.com Digging up kings (and bishops) #9 Not for the faint-hearted, in Old St Paul’s

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Today's the feast of St Charles Borromeo, 16th Century Archbishop of Milan and leading figure in the counter-Reformation. He stands right with St Francis left flanking Christ carrying his cross, on a portable altar piece at Ketton, Rutland. A CofE church, so perhaps a souvenir bought back from Italy?

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Late for Hallowe’en, a corpse who came to find me…
Come read the macabre tale of a great fire, a dead bishop and a mysterious lady ⬇️

Helen Castor @hrcastor Nov 2

this morning’s inbox - I feel so seen

Helen Castor @hrcastor Oct 12

The extraordinary speech Shakespeare gives Richard II echoes an eyewitness account in a 15th-C chronicle that exists in only one manuscript and was unknown until 400 years later.
How? And why?
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Helen Castor @hrcastor Oct 11

Where to start with Frederick Septimus Kelly? Olympic rowing champion, composer, & friend of Rupert Brooke, for whom Kelly wrote an elegy at Gallipoli before dying in action at the Somme. This, by musicologist Thérèse Radic and historian and Olympian @martcrossy, is what you need